[Windows] Free Expert PDF 8 Professional (fully featured PDF editor)!
February 20, 2013 67
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UPDATE: This promotion has now ended. Sorry to all those that missed it!
Need a good PDF editor without paying an arm an leg? Then you have come to the right place because in this post we describe how you get can Expert PDF 8 Professional ($95 value) for free!
Software Description
The following is the description of Expert PDF 8 Professional, as per the developer:
Quick Summary
Create PDF
Expert PDF Profesional Edition is the complete PDF creator and PDF writer tool. It lets you create PDF files from any document that you are working on so that you can save and send your work securely.Edit PDF and modify
Once created you can view and edit PDF documents as easily as Word documents using the Expert PDF Editor. You can modify text, images, layout or add comments quickly and easily. Expert PDF can also be used as a default viewer for all your PDF documents.Convert PDF to Word
If you receive a PDF that you want to change, Expert PDF Profesional Edition enables you to convert PDF to Word using the PDF converter. Simply make the changes and save it back into PDF before saving or sending the PDF file.Features
PDF to Word conversion – One click conversion of any PDF into a document that can be read and modified in Microsoft Word. Expert PDF also places a handy link on your desktop to provide easy access to this useful program.
Easy conversion of a PDF file into a PDF Form, which can then be filled in on screen with only a standard PDF Reader!
Create new and fully customised PDF forms, and edit existing ones.
- Add and edit form controls such as Text zones, radio buttons, check boxes, drop-down lists and action buttons
- Edit text and object attributes: font, colour, line width, display options…
- Associate actions to objects within the PDF Forms: eg auto complete, opening web pages etc
OCR (Optical Character recognition) – Turn your PDF files into easily searchable documents!. OCR makes it possible to search for text within scanned images/documents, making your PDF documents more time efficient to work with.
PDF/A Support – Optimises long-term PDF file preservation, ensuring the files you create now, will continue to be relevant and usable in the future
Document Management – Expert PDF includes support for the Bates numbering system which is widely used in the legal, medical and business worlds.
Multiple document merge – Select several documents in various formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, URL, etc.) for conversion as a single PDF, or as separate PDF files.
Integrated toolbar – Expert PDF 8 Professional Edition is fully integrated into Word® and Excel® toolbars, making it easy to convert a document into PDF without switching programs
Image conversion – Documents can be converted into popular formats – JPG, GIF, TIF etc.
Hyperlink and URL management – Direct links within PDF documents to websites, and when you convert your document to a PDF, all hyperlinks are preserved.
Easy Emailing – Convert a file to PDF and email it to a friend or colleague in just two clicks
Text editing features – Cut, copy, paste, resize text and visuals within your PDF
Graphic editing tools – Add images, geometric shapes, Bezier curves, and more to a PDF file.
Annotation tools – Add notes, watermarks, comments and stamps to your PDF documents
Document protection – Secure and protect your PDF file (password encryption) with rights to print, edit and copy etc.
Compatibility – Compatible with Adobe® Acrobat® or Acrobat® Reader® (but not required), all Microsoft Office programs, as well as support for converting Javascript into PDFs.
Secure – Create password protected PDF files for restricted access. 256 bit encryption is also available for PDF files that require the highest security level.
dotTech Advice
Get this freebie while you can. It is a very good PDF editor (it is a real editor — you can edit content of PDFs with this program), converter (e.g. PDF to Word), and creator (e.g. PDF printer).
Freebie Details
Expert PDF 8 Professional is being given away for free by Avanquest. These are no details how long this freebie will be available so grab it while you can; if history is any indicator, as soon as an Avanquest freebie is posted on dotTech it is reposted all over the web and Avanquest shuts down the freebie for those that haven’t already gotten it.
To get Expert PDF 8 Professional for free, do the following:
Version being given out for free: v8.0.350
Free updates: Unknown
Free support: Unknown
Supported OS: Windows 2000 and higher
UPDATE: For some odd reason, some Windows XP users are unable to install this program properly while others are installing it just fine. There are no issues with Vista, Win7, and Win8 users.
Download size: 48.1 MB
Giveaway time-frame: Unknown — it can be closed at anytime
Can be installed/reinstalled at later date: Unknown
- Visit the
promotion page, fill out the form, and hit the submit button:
If you do it successfully, you should see the following success page:
When you see the above page, you can close it.
- Now check the inbox of the email address you entered. Look for an email from “kontakt@avanquest.de” with subject of “Ihre PDF Experte 8 Ultimate Seriennummer: E-Mail-Bestätigung”. (If you cannot find the email, look in your spam/junk box. Gmail sent it to spam for me.) In the email there is a link you click to click/follow:
- Once you click the link, you will be taken to a page that gives you a serial key; copy the key:
- Download and install Expert PDF 8 Professional. The installer and program are in English.
- Once installed, run the program, go to ‘Help’ -> ‘Register Full Version’.
- Paste the serial key you copied earlier into field that pops up and click ‘Activate’:
- If you get the following success message, then you are done:
You can confirm successful registration by going to ‘Help’ and a) making sure ‘Register Full Version’ is no longer there and b) clicking ‘About’ shows version number and serial key:
Grats, you are now the owner of Expert PDF 8 Professional. Without paying a cent.
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Tried the latest link but they must have withdrawn the offer. Now it’s only “trial” and “buy” $59.99 AUD… and no “promotional”…
Updated article to reflect that this promotion has now ended. Sorry to those that all missed it! Until next time, friends.
Not only has the free offer ‘expired’.
My previously successful activated and registered PDF 8 from this offer no longer works as of this morning, having reverted back to a (useless) trial version. They must have “unregistered” me.
dang it, i forgot to install in my win7 lappie, i have the serial, let’s hope installation may work at a later time(?). in xp, it is still working good, and working better than adobe reader (faster to open, way faster than acrobat, and it opens multiple PDFs in tabs).
[@Alien] [@Alien]
What a farce….they sent the serial number without the link while the promotion was still active….now, their ftp server is overloaded. Did anyone get the file?
[@eric506]
This version reverts on my PC to the trial about 15 days after activation. Reactivation wasn’t possible because “the key is expired”. That was the 2nd time i tried promotional “giveaway” of this editor with the same reasult. So, I count that ExpertPDF promotions are a pure cheating. :-(
[@Ian] [@Wiz] Mine is still registered. Maybe the unregistration is coming but I’ve disabled automatic updates (Help -> Update) to try to prevent it.
[@Wiz] [@Ian] Can you guys register at http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=546 (different promo page) and see if that key activates your license? I’ll update post if it works.
[@Ashraf] I went ahead and uninstalled my registered Expert PDF 8 Pro to try to test this new promo page and it doesn’t work. I’m looking into alternative ways. Hang on.
[@Ashraf] [@Ashraf] Turns out that promo is for Expert PDF 8 Pro Converter, not the editor. Anyone that wants just the converter (does PDF to Word conversions, OCR, plus has a virtual printer) do the following:
1) Grab serial key from http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=546 (in German)
2) Download and install ftp://ftp2.avanquest.com/evaluation/ExpertPDF_Converter/8/PDF_Experte_8_Professional_TRIAL_DEU.exe (in German)
3) Run program, go to ‘Hilfe’ -> ‘Vollersion aktiverion’ and register with serial key
4) Close program
5) Go to C:\Program Files\Avanquest\PDF Experte 8 Professional. Find all the .DEU files and delete them (you can filter by file type).
6) Done. You should now have Experrt PDF 8 Pro Converter in English.
[@Ashraf]
I followed these instructions to the letter and I get the EXACT same error regarding an invalid serial number except that its in German. These guys are a joke and I will give them no more of my time.
[@Ashraf]
Did you mean that the one from the last promotion is still registered? My post was about the Christmas promotion mentioned by eric506. After that I gives up and doesn’t tried the last one. We will see will be still registered after 15-20 days.
BTW, I always disable automatic updates for giveaway software (for those which doesn’t offer disabling autoupdate feature I block the server using hosts file).
[@Sammo]
You are absolutely right! This is the another fake promotion of Avanquest!
[@Donna]
Well I Had lot’s of printing problems with this program. Not only would it not reconize my Ebson printer it caused conflicts with my printing from other applications. I realy wanted and needed this program but had no choice but to uninstall. Which I did and everything is back to normal.
So I reinstalled and Yep, had the same printer problems. It list the printer in the print selection but with an X. Which would have been fine. I could have used the program then printed from Adobe or one of my other PDF writers. But again it caused problems with all the printing processes. Anyway, thanks anyway for the thought. They have some fixes they need to make. Everything else about the program seemed to be excellent.
I tried old link and below new link as well and it seems I am not that lucky.Always getting error. Tried with two different email accounts. I have to uninstall trial version.
http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=546
i am mad to see today that the software says the license has expired! going back to adobe for read.
Glad I did not let it overwrite my version 6 since I had not read comments yet. Last time I checked, it was still possible to get version 6 for free if anybody needs it.